She acknowledged that nowadays "you get in trouble" for being a white person who puts on blackface (her panel nodded in agreement) or the reverse (more nodding). "Back when I was a kid, that was OK as long as you were dressing up as a character". "I don't know how that got racist on Halloween", Kelly adds. "If she really wanted to look like Diana Ross, she should have dressed like Michael Jackson", Rivers added, proving comedy to be a gene perhaps not passed down from her mother Joan. "People said that was racist and I don't know, I felt like, who doesn't love Diana Ross?".

"Blackface is part of a history of dehumanization, of denied citizenship, and of efforts to excuse and justify state violence".

Kelly wondered aloud during a conversation about universities putting pressure on students not to wear costumes that might be deemed offensive.

"What is racist?" Kelly said. Kelly made it clear that she was against banning various costumes that others found offensive, including cowboys, dressing up like disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein, "anything Mexican-based", nuns and more.

Late Tuesday afternoon, NBC released an apologetic email that Kelly sent to NBC staffers, as she stated she was led to "rethink her own views" after speaking to colleagues and friends. You may have Megyn Kelly's seal of approval, but the majority of polite society has moved forward.

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